As much as I want this to be some sort of embarrassment, I just don't see anything wrong with getting drunk and skinny dipping. Even if the trip was a boondoggle paid for with tax dollars. I think our country and leadership could use more drunken naked nights together.

As much as I want this to be some sort of embarrassment, I just don't see anything wrong with getting drunk and skinny dipping. Even if the trip was a boondoggle paid for with tax dollars. I think our country and leadership could use more drunken naked nights together.

But FBI agents were actually interested in Grimm’s failure to file paperwork related to his trip to Cyprus following his Israeli junket, which had been paid for by the Cyprus Federation of America. The president of that company was arrested on federal corruption charges in June. Grimm had reported the Israel trip in his initial filing in May but did not list the trip to Cyprus until he amended it in June, one day after Cyprus Federation of America’s president was arrested.

I admit to having skinny dipped in the Sea of Galilee as well. (near Tiberias) (My hosts called it Lake Kinneret) As much as I like to see GOP congressmen embarrassed I have no idea why this would do so.

Tea Party ass******** voters don't realize that the only difference between their corrupt Tea Party ass******** candidates and the conventional candidates that they loathe for "playing the system" is that the Tea Party ass******** candidates never pass any goddammned legislation.

Let's face it, if this story didn't come out at the same time as Congressman Legitimate Rape, this would have been a bigger story. The vultures are enjoying Akin because of the ties to the Presidential Campaign.

Congressman doing stupid things in their free time is such an everyday occurrence.

As much as I want this to be some sort of embarrassment, I just don't see anything wrong with getting drunk and skinny dipping. Even if the trip was a boondoggle paid for with tax dollars. I think our country and leadership could use more drunken naked nights together.

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It was not tax-payer funded:

The American Israel Educational Foundation, a group related to AIPAC, the prominent pro-Israel advocacy group, sponsored the trip, which ran from Aug. 13 to Aug. 21, 2011. The trip cost AIEF upwards of $10,000 per person, according to records filed with the House Ethics Committee. More than 60 people took part in this AIEF trip.

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That, to me, is the big deal. That seems more like a vacation.

To be clear, though, I'm not saying only Reps do this. But nobody here seems to care that it happened at all. Well, maybe JohnR does.